Gatwick/Buenos Aires air shuttle by Norwegian start from £259 one-way

This Wednesday, the first ever budget flight from London to South America departs from Gatwick airport. Fares on the 14-hour Norwegian Air Shuttle flight to Buenos Aires start from £259 one-way. The seats are tightly packed and food and luggage cost extra, but the no-frills model of flying, so well established on short-haul routes, is becoming increasingly common on intercontinental flights. Read full article

Have you thought this through, why on earth would the FALKLANDERS want a flight to BA after all the agro they have had from your side.The trouble would be that your side would want to come to the FALKLANDS and cause trouble for the FALKLANDERS.Flag waving and that sort of childish behaviour.

@golfcronie:
I think you are right, first of all the Argies have to learn certain rules of behavior that do not even have them in their land, if they decide to visit the islands it would be better to do it with the spirit of visiting a neighboring country and not doing nonsense, this It's called respect and education.

I see your point golfcronie: in order to avoid childish behaviour by some Argentines such as waving a flag (a very dangerous behaviour, indeed), you prefer to fly West in order to go to the East. Common sense versus hate, in which camp place yourself?

I'd advise you to turn it back on again. ;) And that was aimed at Clyde15; no one is forced to fly with Ryanair, but most people prefer to be uncomfortable and save money. Would Falklanders prefer to avoid Argentina or save money?

DT
Aimed at me? Sounds a bit threatening ! My point was, we know you will have to sit on someones knee to save a few quid but I was more interested in the business ethics as used by Ryanair. Hidden charges all over the shop. Customer service zilch.
For example. Ryanair used to do about 7 flights a day from Prestwick to Stanstead.
The 1345 flight was regularly cancelled and the passengers bumped on to the 1630 flight.
As a result, many passengers missed their connecting Ryanair flights to other destinations.
Ryanair's reply. You have failed to arrive in time for your flight so have forfeited your right to a refund. Nothing to do with us !

Norwegian use Dreamliners which are excellent. I will give them a try… but only once. Usually we try to avoid Gatwick and the M25.

Only thing to be said for Ryanair is that the seats dont tilt.

@DT you increasingly come across as a smug arse. Reading the other thread if you continually suck up to a noxious stink you soon begin to stink yourself as others have observed. Off you go, dig up some dirt… pathetic.

@Clyde15
Didn't mean to sound threatening, I was just trying to say that was a reply to you and not TV.

And now you've explained, I agree Ryanair's ethics are dodgy. I've experienced their misleading pricing scheme myself but unfortunately it does seem to work - people will go for the 'cheaper' flight with hidden costs over the one that tells you the price up front. Maybe the government should update the laws to close loopholes like the connecting flights thing, I don't believe they will stop doing it on their own.

”I see your point “golfcronie”: in order to avoid childish behaviour by some Argentines such as waving a flag (a very dangerous behaviour, indeed)”

So it is alright with you if I travel to Ushuaia and emulate Argentine behaviour, with no respect for the people of Ushuaia, by waving a Union Jack proclaiming that (indigenous population) aside, Ushuaia was initially founded by the British.

And should I expect to be arrested/stoned or not for my action?

Then transcribe that, to waving the Argentine flag in the Falklands.

In your opinion would be OK for Falkland Islanders to travel to San Julian, and wave the Falkland flag on the basis that Falkland Islanders settled there before Argentines did?

If the Argentines ban the Falkland Flag in Argentina by using a law named after a gaucho accepting British rule and British overseas aid in the Falklands on 3/1/1833, then explain why Argentines should be allowed to fly their flag on the Falkland Islands?

After reading most of the posts here I really think that the best thing that could happen is to keep the status of the Islands as it is now. One survival flight between the Island and the Continent (based on the fact that the islanders prefer flights to a continent they don't feel any attraction to) per week or every two weeks and that's it. Who really need more?

Argentina has a extremely large, and dangerous, public deficit (that must be reduced) so as to waste its money subsidizing another fly between Bs As and the Islands.

Only a few of argentines really want to visit the Islands so, nobody need the LAN stop in Rio Gallegos.